Authorities identify farm fatal

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Sep 23, 2013 at 9:20 am

BUFFALO, Minn. (KNSI) The Wright County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man killed in a farm machinery accident Friday night.

Officers were called to an address in Stockholm Township where 54 year-old Craig Wanous of Hutchinson had become entangled in the cutter head of a self-propelled field chopper. Wanous was dead at the scene.

Two other workers witnessed the accident, but were unable to pull Wanous to safety.

The accident remains under investigation by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office and the Wright County Sheriff's Office.